Lethality Validation for Human Pathogenic on Chicken Feathers and Blood during Simulated Commercial Low-Temperature Dry Rendering.

Poultry rendering is the process of upcycling inedible poultry carcass materials into useful animal food/feed components as well as other valuable commercial products. Microbiological safety validation is nonetheless critical to ensuring the prevention of food safety hazard(s) transmission. This study determined the death kinetics of the thermotolerant serovar Senftenberg isolate 775W in chicken feathers and blood in low-temperature dry rendering (i.

Recent developments in antimicrobial and antifouling coatings to reduce or prevent contamination and cross-contamination of food contact surfaces by bacteria.

Illness as the result of ingesting bacterially contaminated foodstuffs represents a significant annual loss of human quality of life and economic impact globally. Significant research investment has recently been made in developing new materials that can be used to construct food contacting tools and surfaces that might minimize the risk of cross-contamination of bacteria from one food item to another. This is done to mitigate the spread of bacterial contamination and resultant foodborne illness.

Dual-Functional, Superhydrophobic Coatings with Bacterial Anticontact and Antimicrobial Characteristics.

Bacterial pathogens are responsible for millions of cases of illnesses and deaths each year throughout the world. The development of novel surfaces and coatings that effectively inhibit and prevent bacterial attachment, proliferation, and growth is one of the crucial steps for tackling this global challenge. Herein, we report a dual-functional coating for aluminum surfaces that relies on the controlled immobilization of lysozyme enzyme (muramidase) into interstitial spaces of presintered, nanostructured thin film based on ∼200 nm silica nanoparticles and the sequential chemisorption of an organofluorosilane to the available interfacial areas.